Washington's private papers-Little box in the State Department-Virginia Almanac-Care of Washington in preserving and preparing these papers-Variety of subjects treated in them-The use that has been made of them by his biographers -A more private and personal account still possible, partly by addition, partly by omission.
In the Department of State, at Washington, is a box of manuscripts-three or four cubic feet of them, perhaps-all written in the clear, flowing, manly hand of George Washington; every page, almost, and sometimes the same page more than once, bearing his beautiful signature—
The papers are old and yellow; some of them a good deal worn at the edges and in the folds; others